I have been trying to create a bootable USB drive with clonezilla live on it. But I cannot get it to boot past the first black screen. The one that says "use at your own risk". It just sits there.

Here are the details.

1. I am using the amd64 files (tried the zip and iso, and the i686 and i486 versions to double check)

2. Using tuxboot on Ubuntu 10.04 to create the USB disk. Note: I did reboot my PC after creating the disk (though I don't want to image my PC). But it still just hangs at the black clonezilla warning page. So after that attempt, I have not tried rebooting my PC again. I just click exit and then remove the drive.

3. After creating the disk, running sudo parted, then print all, shows the partition sdb with the "boot" tag

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That's the tool to use to make ANY bootable flash drive from ANY iso. Make the bootloader files and everything when you set it up. Try the Clonezilla i386 iso. It really is designed to be a 32-bit application. Just FYI

Here is some more info as it still does not work. The machine I wish to clone has multiple USB choices. If I choose generic it goes to the basic black "use at your own risk" screen and I cannot get past it.

If I choose EFI generic it starts a GRUB screeen and produces an error running command 'local xxxxx' something that I cannot see as it moves to fast.

Then I get loaded into the clonezilla load screen to choose a resolution. No matter which option I choose, the load ends at the timeout killing error. Where it repeats that error over and over until I power off the machine.

I tried using YUMI on my win7 VM, but choosing the generic gets me a blank menu screen. Which only gives me system tools as the only image to load.

If I choose the EFI generic then I get the same issue with the repeating error.

Any other ideas? Also my PC if I try to test the USB only has one USB boot option so something must be going wrong. I know it is probably something small and simple that I am doing wrong.

I am going to try installing it on a HD on my NFS server and see if I can work magic with that.

I get the same results with every version I try. Which was the i486, i686 and quantal. I even tried a version from the good ol days. 1.2.6-40.

Raring is my next try and then I will have to try a USB CD ROM drive, as my machines don't have CD drives. My boxes have internal USB drives for licensing and other such restore info. So I think there may be confusion with the BIOS even though I am choosing the right one. But I really don't see some other options in the BIOS that might help.

Just to double check, putting the ISO on the drive as is, and trying to boot that would not work? I presume it would not read it or would try to install clonezilla live, instead of running it.

Also, I found that under the EFI usb drive option before the clonezilla startup page, the error "cannot find command 'load_video'" pops up on black screen really fast. I had to use a phone app that could capture at 50 FPS.

I am trying to find the right cfg file to edit to bypass this screen or at least allow me to get past it with key strokes.

I see modprobe errors on the screen shot you posted, at this point you have a functioning boot system. However, some piece of hardware is causing a problem. What motherboard and pci cards are you using?